Day of national mobilization in France, this Tuesday, October 18, while unions from many sectors (public service, energy, public transport, road, agri-food, trade, etc.) are calling for strikes and demonstrations.
Processions have already set off in France on the morning of this Tuesday, October 18.
At the heart of the concerns are in particular the revaluation of wages and the requisitioning of strikers in refineries.
Unions of vocational high schools will also demonstrate against the reform of this path wanted by the government.
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"It's an arm wrestling with power, a kind of pearly May 68, if you like, because the aggression is so ferocious that even the most indifferent say to themselves: but when are they going to stop?
“, estimated Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the leader of La France Insoumise (LFI), on the way to a picket at the Gare de Lyon in Paris.
"Tomorrow, we will have 49.3 in the Assembly, before, we had the 49.3 of the requisitions, that is to say that there is no brutality from which we escape", he castigated in front of the cameras.